Re: Submission of an article or letter - "Message to Christian Friends of Jews."

Dear Editor, I would like to submit the following article or letter for your perusal. I hope, you’ll find it interesting and suitable for publication. Sincerely.yours, Steven Shamrak, Australia. (Phone: 61 - 0412 186 026) Message to Christian Friends of Jews. by Steven Shamrak There are many different Christian churches, groups and movements. Some of them call themselves Zionists or good and true Christians. Many of them are deeply antagonistic toward main stream Catholics and Anglicans. And, they try to disassociate themselves from the actions of Church in the past. Just recently, the Pope, leader of 1.1 billion Catholics, deliberately omitted Israel from the list of countries suffering from Islamic terror in his speech. Following his example, an Anglican archbishop did not mention two Jews as victims of London bombings. Some Church leaders are still advocating divestment from Israel, but not from Muslim countries linked to Islamic terrorism! We have not been hearing condemnations made by the “true Christians” of the anti-Semitic behaviour and Israel-bashing by their Christian brothers in the past and the present. Most of them are silent about Arab terrorism in Israel, anti-Semitic acts in their own countries and anti-Israel discriminatory behaviour of UN, EU, Red Cross and USA as well. True friendship can be measured only by actions! Inaction of the Church leaders and Christian leadership of the US and European governments against the spreading Islamic terror is appalling and borders with criminal negligence. For many years they have been ignoring the warnings about Islamic expansionistic ambition. They ignore the fact that true Islamists hate Christians even more than Jews. Now they are experiencing the result of their duplicity. Europe under the flame of Islamic fire, but the hypocrites still are not able to face the reality and playing the game of political correctness, ignorance and providing false justifications to the simple fact of Islamic hate! From the Jewish point of view it is difficult to distinguish the true friends among the Christian groups. Most of them claim friendship but actually have sinister motives. The Messianic Christians, for example, consider themselves as the “good Christians”. This is in spite of the fact that the main objective of the Messianic church is to prove the validity of Christian teachings by converting the lost Jewish souls into Christianity. They do believe, as many before them, that the increase in the number of Jewish Christians is an indication that the Church is G-d’s true religion. In the pass the forceful conversion of Jews was a preferred method, but proved itself ineffective. Unfortunately, many Christian groups and organizations still believe and practice the old traditional theology of hate or misguided envy toward Jews. They ignore the fact that conversion of the Jews to Christianity is actually against the will of the G-d and undermines the most important Christian doctrine of the Second coming. It diminishes the chance of all Jews to come to Israel, as He commandment for the arrival of the Jewish Messiah. Effectively, due to deeply imbedded anti-Semitism or pathological jealousy, many branches of the Church have been sabotaging the Second coming of their Messiah by evangelising Jews. I respect any belief system as long as they do not discriminate against others. At the same time, I demand the same respect toward my people, our traditions and our rights from others. True friendship is a two way street. Jews welcome moral and political support for Israel from the non-Jewish friends. But, it must be given without any ulterior motives. The good Christian friends must not be frustrated when Jews criticize the anti-Semitic behaviour of the Church. Most often, the Church practice and religion have very little in common! If you follow the Bible’s message of love, you are on the right side and have nothing to be concerned about. The bottom line is - your teacher was a Jew and it is difficult to distort his message of love!